Everything from Cortana to WordPad is on the chopping block after a year of feature deprecation.

  • @Skyrmir
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    1110 months ago

    Glad to see Cortana go, too bad they’re replacing it. The VBScript thing is going to be annoying for a few corporate customers.

  • kubica
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    810 months ago

    I’ve seen windows 11 at work, you can’t even drag and drop files in most cases anymore…

    • @transmatrix
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      1210 months ago

      Yeah, they recently removed the ability to drag files to the address bar. This annoys me to no end as this is how I normally move files up a directory.

      • @Darorad
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        510 months ago

        Wait, how else do they expect you to do it?

        • ma11en
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          210 months ago

          Clunkily, you either have to cut, navigate to the higher level and paste, or right click on the file, open location then navigate, drag and drop.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      This is blatantly false, I use Windows 11 at work, and it most certainly works with drag and drop.

      I like shitting on Windows like most people, but let’s do it for real reasons, like how you need to mess with the installer to bypass the needless Microsoft account crap, or the new context menu that not only is worse in it’s features, but also suck from a UI perspective.

      • kubica
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        1010 months ago

        I don’t know about you but I was used to move files between programs, or the folder tree and now I can’t.

        • JustSomePerson
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          10 months ago

          I’m sitting here with Windows 11, right now, dragging files back and forth into the folder tree, and into programs.

          People are right about the address bar, though. That has been made much worse. The worst thing for me is how much gaps there are, so the leftmost part doesn’t fit, and you can’t tell which disk or share you’re on.

          • kubica
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            210 months ago

            I guess there is something else in my case. But now in the best cases I can copy paste, and other times I have to navigate through the save dialog until the folder where I have to save.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          We have many Windows 11 machines at the office, I work in the IT team, and we have never heard about this issue.

          What I would recommend is turning off fast start up and restarting your computer, a lot of weird ceap like this is caused by fast startup.

          It is a shitty feature that lost relevance when we moved our boot drives from harddrives to SSDs.

  • @gridleaf
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    110 months ago

    You can’t hide the notification icon on the taskbar anymore. There used to be an option, but now there’s a useless bell icon I can’t get rid of.

  • BananaTrifleViolin
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    110 months ago

    This all makes sense from Microsofts point of view, but maybe less so from consumers point of view. But thats what you get with a commercial OS.